Preventing Plagiarism

Easy
Steps to Combating Plagiarism
Kimbel Library, at Coastal Carolina University, provides this page of tips
for talking with students about plagiarism, focusing on the process, and for
making assignments with steps that help prevent plagiarism.

Guide
to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
This Web site from the University of Alberta Libraries provides information
on "Cyber-plagiarism" including how to prevent, detect, and report
plagiarism of Web sites. In addition, there are links to recommended resources
for articles and Web sites on plagiarism and handouts that can be photocopied
for class.

Plagiarism: A
Selective Introduction
The American University in Cairo maintains this page. It has very useful links
under Defining Plagiarism, Detecting Plagiarism, Avoiding Plagiarism, Internet
Plagiarism and Further Reading.

Plagiarism:
Avoiding, Stopping and Detecting
The library at the University of Queensland in Australia maintains this site.
The site describes what is plagiarism and how it can be avoided. It also provides
links for teachers to sites to help them detect plagiarism.

Plagiarized.com - The Instructors
Guide to Internet Plagiarism"The purpose of this site is to help teachers or professors (or even
parents) determine if a given piece of academic work has been obtained from
the Internet." There is a list of "dead giveaways", research
advice, and advice on how to reduce the opportunities for plagiarism.

Strategies
to Discourage Plagiarism
This site, created by two librarians at Owens Library, suggests assignment
styles and strategies that faculty may use to discourage plagiarism.

Ways
to Deter PlagiarismFifteen easy tips for helping students avoid plagiarism are provided from
the Osterlin Library at Northwestern Michigan College.